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New links and comments.en-ushttp://www.rssboard.org/rss-specificationWordzilla/0.5810Meet The Memcomputer: The Alternative to Quantum Computinghttp://www.drudge.com/news/189380/meet-memcomputer-alternative
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a16308/memcomputer-quantum-computing-alternative/William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics: Quantum computers require cool, carefully tended environments that are beyond our current technological capabilities. But Massimiliano Di Ventra, a physicist and computer scientist at the University of California, San Diego, has an entirely different solution. He and a team of his colleagues have just designed and built the first brain-like computer prototype that bypasses certain structural limits of our modern electronics. Called the memcomputer, its the first computer to store and processes info simultaneously. It's announced today in the journal Science Advances.According to Di Ventra, despite his new technology's futuristic promise, "memcomputers can be built with standard technology and operate at room temperature. This puts them on a completely different level of simplicity and cost in manufacturing compared to quantum computers."Fri, 03 Jul 2015 19:31:34 -0400rstybeach11http://www.drudge.com/news/189380/meet-memcomputer-alternative#discusstag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.189380discussion,0.5daily189380Paper: Maybe Conspiracy Theorists Have Been Right All Alonghttp://www.drudge.com/news/188911/paper-maybe-conspiracy-theorists-have-been
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11671617/Perhaps-the-worlds-conspiracy-theorists-have-been-right-all-along.htmlAlex Proud, The Telegraph: We used to laugh at conspiracy theorists, but from Fifa to banking scandals and the Iraq War, it seems they might have been on to something after all, says Alex ProudConspiracy theories used to be so easy.
<p>You'd have your mate who, after a few beers, would tell you that the moon landings were faked or that the Illuminati controlled everything or that the US government was holding alien autopsies in Area 51. And you'd be able to dismiss this because it was all rubbish.
<p>Look, you'd say, we have moon rock samples and pictures and we left laser reflectors on the surface and... basically you still don't believe me but that's because you're mad and no proof on earth (or the moon) would satisfy you. ... Of course, our real-life conspiracies aren't much like The X-Files &#150; they're disappointingly short on aliens and the supernatural. Rather, they're more like John Le Carre books. Shady dealings by powerful people who want nothing more than to line their profits at the expense of others. The abuse of power. Crazy ideologues who try and create their own facts for fun and profit. Corporations supplanting governments via regulatory capture.
So, what are some of our biggest conspiracies?
<p>Tue, 16 Jun 2015 14:37:26 -0400rstybeach11http://www.drudge.com/news/188911/paper-maybe-conspiracy-theorists-have-been#discusstag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.188911discussion,0.5daily188911Study: Juvenile Incarceration Leads to More Crimehttp://www.drudge.com/news/188784/study-juvenile-incarceration-leads-more
https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/juvenile-incarceration-less-schooling-more-crime-0610Teens who are incarcerated tend to have substantially worse outcomes later in life than those who avoid serving time for similar offenses, according to a new study co-authored by an MIT scholar. "We find that kids who go into juvenile detention are much less likely to graduate from high school and much more likely to end up in prison as adults," said study co-author Joseph Doyle, an economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. The research project, which studied the long-term outcomes of tens of thousands of teens in Illinois, shows that, other things being equal, juvenile incarceration lowers high-school graduation rates by 13 percentage points and increases adult incarceration by 23 percentage points.A key to the study is that it uses the variation in judges' sentencing tendencies to analyze a large pool of otherwise similar teens, thus isolating the effects of the sentences on the kids in question.Fri, 12 Jun 2015 08:30:03 -0400rstybeach11http://www.drudge.com/news/188784/study-juvenile-incarceration-leads-more#discusstag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.188784news,0.5daily188784Feds Seek Blogger Info Over Threats Against Judgehttp://www.drudge.com/news/188792/feds-seek-blogger-info-over-threats-against
http://www.cato.org/blog/feds-subpoena-reason-foundationTim Lynch, Cato Institute: Two killers are on the loose, having escaped from a New York prison, but federal prosecutors in New York are hunting for some individuals who posted comments to a blog post over at the Reason web site. Stay with me as I try to explain&#133;<p>By way of background, Reason's Nick Gillespie wrote a blog post about the federal prosecution of the man behind the Silk Road project, a sophisticated narcotics distribution operation. (If you're tempted to comment on that post, please finish reading this post first. Seriously.) That man, Ross Ulbricht, was recently sentenced to life in prison, without the possibility of parole. Like Cato, Reason has been a long time critic of the drug war. Thus, most of Reason's web site readers believe that nearly all criminal prosecutions for narcotics violations are misguided and unjust. So it was no surprise to learn that the comments to Gillespie's post had harsh things to say about the government, including the sentencing judge, in that case. Some evidently went so far as to say the judge should be killed. Enter the federal government with subpoenas to Reason so agents can track down those anonymous commentators for further investigation.Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:57:10 -0400rstybeach11http://www.drudge.com/news/188792/feds-seek-blogger-info-over-threats-against#discusstag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.188792discussion,0.5daily188792FBI: Patriot Act Snooping Caught Zero Major Terroristshttp://www.drudge.com/news/188238/fbi-patriot-act-snooping-caught-zero-major
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/21/fbi-admits-patriot-act-snooping-powers-didnt-crack/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&google_editors_picks=trueMaggie Ybarra, The Washington Times: FBI agents can't point to any major terrorism cases they've cracked thanks to the key snooping powers in the Patriot Act, the Justice Department's inspector general said in a report Thursday that could complicate efforts to keep key parts of the law operating. Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz said that between 2004 and 2009, the FBI tripled its use of bulk collection under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which allows government agents to compel businesses to turn over records and documents, and increasingly scooped up records of Americans who had no ties to official terrorism investigations.Backers say the Patriot Act powers are critical and must be kept intact, particularly with the spread of the threat from terrorists. But opponents have doubted the efficacy of Section 215, particularly when it's used to justify bulk data collection such as in the case of the National Security Agency's phone metadata program, revealed in leaks from former government contractor Edward Snowden.
<p>The new report adds ammunition to those opponents, with the inspector general concluding that no major cases have been broken by use of the Patriot Act's records-snooping provisions.
<p>"The agents we interviewed did not identify any major case developments that resulted from use of the records obtained in response to Section 215 orders," the inspector general concluded -- though he said agents did view the material they gathered as "valuable" in developing other leads or corroborating information.Sat, 23 May 2015 16:33:14 -0400rstybeach11http://www.drudge.com/news/188238/fbi-patriot-act-snooping-caught-zero-major#discusstag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.188238news,0.5daily188238